RECONSTRUCTION 
 of the NEGRO RACE 
 
 BY 
 
 M. M. MADDEN, Supreme President of the 
 National Court of Protection, Terre Haute, Ind. 
 
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 REV. G. W. WILLIAMS, 
 
 Pastor Allen A. M. E. Chapel, Terre Haute, Ind. 
 
 'He's a man for the day; he's a man for the hour."
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 1. First, the reconstruction of the ra.ce. 
 
 2. Eleven million of people misled for over a half century 
 with reference to their citizenship in the U. S. 
 
 3. Special representation in Washington, which you are 
 entitled to by virtue of the constitution failing to provide for 
 your citizenship. 
 
 4. The first and second article of the 14th Amendment 
 state the object of the amendment but not its completion. 
 
 5. The cause of Abraham Lincoln's death. 
 
 6. Mobilizing the negro for the purpose of petitioning 
 to the government to create the position for the race to have 
 a representative. 
 
 7. For the race to have the intelligence to fill the position 
 by selecting a man that is qualified for the same. 
 
 8. To petition the government to colonize the race and 
 give us self government, which is wisdoms roots, since the two 
 races disagree so far, we do not ask for citizenship but colon- 
 ization. We believe that greater opportunities would present 
 themselves. 
 
 These are the outlines of Dr. Madden's address to a large 
 audience in the fairgrounds at Muskogee, Okla. After this 
 address Dr. Madden received a charter from the state of Okla- 
 homa, to perfect an organization known as the National Court 
 of Protection. Dr. Madden is one of the builders of the world 
 yet to come.
 
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 Reconstruction of the Negro Race. 
 
 As fast as in fears, nature of regulation will always exist, 
 when the human family was small, and only consist of two 
 people it was not necessary to give ten rules of regulation. 
 
 You had no need for the Ten Commandments at that time. 
 One charge was sufficient to take care of the situation, The 
 day in which you eat therefore, you shall surely die. That 
 took care of the human family for a long time. But as fast as 
 the people multiplied so did their sins, and the day did ap- 
 pear when there were ten inferior qualities which existed 
 among the people, and a rule of regulations provided. 
 
 There was a law written upon stone by the hand of nature, 
 and handed down to the human family. That took care of the 
 situation for a good long time, but as fast as the people 
 multiplied so did their sins. Under that very same method of 
 sin, the wages of sin became death, and it took the gift of God 
 to be eternal life, and the rule and regulation provided no 
 graver question than the race question is today confronting 
 the American people. The white man's promise to the negro 
 when he could vote was just as' munificent as a cross section 
 of the Ten Commandments edge with the 'Pilgrims Progress.' 
 But since you have ceased to become a political factor you 
 are today rapidly becoming to realize your real position. 
 Placing your feet upon that new plane of knowledge. In a 
 great measure you are able to work out what the future holds 
 in store for you and your off-springs. This is a great race 
 of ours. Your being in number today (one tenth) of the 
 population of the American people, giving you a population of 
 eleven million (11,000,000) people with no enterprise, not 
 even seeking the material, civil, nor moral welfare of this 
 country and of the South in particular. There is not a peo- 
 ple in America, that can disregard this element of our popu- 
 lations and ever reach the highest success. In other words 
 the value, the manhood of our race must be recognized. 
 There is an interest that we have in this government that must 
 be taken care of, and can only be taken care of by reprpu- 
 
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 tation. Every people in the U. S. is represented with the ex- 
 ception of the negro race. There is a law tree setting in the 
 center of this government that was set by George Washing- 
 ton, representing a straight pole in the ground from earths 
 sorrow to heavens glory that meant equal rights to all men. 
 Every time that congress has met since the death of George 
 Washington and legislated, they have not set another pole 
 they only make an amendment and attach it, which represents 
 a limb on the law tree. Just as many times as Congress has 
 met and legislated, since the death of Washington, there are 
 just that many limbs on the law tree today. 
 
 There is a limb going out in favor of every Indian by tribe 
 Polish, Slavish, and Hungarian, town incorporations, rail- 
 roads incorporations oil trusts, tea trusts, every thing that is 
 operated in these U. S. is made mention of on the law tree 
 with the exception of this 11,000,000 negroes. You are not 
 made mention of on the law tree of which you are living un- 
 der by reason of the fact you have never been represented by 
 anybody. You can go to Washington today or tomorrow, you 
 will find five big Indians sitting there representing the five big 
 Indian tribes of this country; a big Jap representing the vi- 
 tality of Japan, a Mexican representing the vitality of Mexico 
 just as all other nations have given their vitality to their 
 country, you will find a man representing that people, con- 
 stantly preparing bills, presenting them to congress; getting 
 legislation for his people. You can not find a negro there any 
 where, outside of a janitor. Every law that is made in this 
 country is made as an act of congress and if you havent any 
 one there to prepare a bill and present it to Congress to act on, 
 tell me, how could you hope to get legislation. Is it not true 
 that there is a certain percent of every man's business that ab- 
 solutely belongs to him. 
 
 There is no one going to take care of the obligations of your 
 home but you. There is a certain per cent of every race'sbusi- 
 ness that absolutely belongs to them. Anytime you think that 
 another race will take up the interest of your race and foster 
 it before this government, you have overlooked your hand. 
 Fifty-two years should teach you that fact. You never knew 
 an Indian to press the claim of a Chinaman, and you never 
 knew of a Chinaman pressing the claim of a Jap, and you 
 never knew of a white man who pressed the claim of the 
 Negro. Every race presents its own claim. Then why has the 
 Negro been sitting here for fifty-two long years waiting on a 
 white man to press his claim. Every Negro that ever came 
 through this country making speeches from any political 
 
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 standpoint has been advocating some white man's cause, and 
 this race going to hell swapping ends, drawing on our imagina- 
 tion, telling us that the time will come, that you can take a 
 teaspoon and dip the sea dry; that time will never be. They 
 have told you that the time will come when you will not tell 
 a black man from a white man, that time will never come. 
 They have told you that the time would come that God in his 
 Infinite wisdom would so arrange it that the lamb and the 
 leopard would lay down together. They are laying down to- 
 gether now, but mark you, when the leopard gets up the lamb 
 is always IN the leopard. 
 
 Every effort that you have ever made to take care of your- 
 selves in this government, rather than relieve the situation, 
 you stronger demonstrate that you are not able or capable of 
 self government. You have been sending delegates to Wash- 
 ington ever since you have been a free people. You have 
 no business sending a delegation where you have no represen- 
 tation. You have no one there to send a man to or a set of 
 men to. They will go up there and give the bill to some one, 
 they know not who; just as apt to be a janitor as any one else. 
 They will never show you your mistake, you must find your 
 own mistakes to be able to profit thereby. They will look on 
 the heading of that bill and see that it is headed with some 
 little auxiliary of a church or fraternal order, however it's an 
 individual affair and does not mean the race. 
 
 And they will say all right John, we'll take this and take 
 care of it for you. And it goes on the table, and from on the 
 table it goes under the table, and from there to the waste 
 basket and from there in the fire. Then you are ready to say 
 that your man went up there and sold out, when he had noth- 
 ing on God's earth to sell out but that piece of paper and he 
 could have sold that to you before he could have sold it to any 
 one there, because you are always buying something that is 
 worthless. Any man or any set of men that represents this 
 11,000,000 Negroes should be an authorized indignant of this 
 people, all over the U. S. 
 
 When the day comes that you would voice yourselves in one 
 sentiment and let one man's voice be the sentiment of the race 
 you will not only attract the attention of this government, but 
 any other government under the sun. You will get anything 
 that you ask for that is right, fair and just. I don't want you 
 to ask for anything more than justice, and I don't want you to 
 be satisfied with anything less. Every right that the Negro 
 has in America has been donated to him without a title. The 
 constitution of the U. S. does not provide for the citizenship 
 
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 of the Negro in America. The thirteenth, fourteenth, and 
 fifteenth amendment of the constitution of the U. S. did not 
 complete the citizenship of the Negro. The 13th amendment 
 set him free; the 14th amendment only created a position by 
 which he was to become a citizen. Final steps taking advant- 
 age of that amendment to make him a citizen were never 
 taken. 
 
 The 15th amendment guaranteed the right of citizenship. 
 The white man makes the law, he interprets the law, he en- 
 forces the law, and all that the negro does is abide by the law. 
 This is what should have grown out of the 14th amendment 
 of the Constitution, all persons of African blood of the vitality 
 of Africa to the U. S. shall from this day and date be known 
 as adopted citizens of the U. S. and their ancestors shall be 
 born bona fide. They shall have all the rights of suffrage and 
 privileges of citizenship. There shall not be a state in the 
 union that shall reserve a right to abridge their rights. 
 
 Due to the fact that we did not have a man authorized by 
 the race, neither qualified to prepare such a bill and defend 
 the same before the government, your rights stop right there.. 
 You might search this country just as Sodom and Gomiah 
 \vere searched, to see how many Negroes you would find in 
 America that knew the cause of Abe Lincoln's death, and you 
 would not find as many Negroes in America that knew the 
 cause of that man's death as you found righteous people in 
 that city. Abe Lincoln, died for the same cause that I am talk- 
 ing to you on tonight. He says, "I must adopt these people as 
 citizens of the U. S. to protect this government further down 
 the road. These people are ignorant now but they will not 
 always be so. They have learned to imitate. They are going 
 to educate, and in that they will seek the very highest marks 
 of intelligence, you can fool some of the people all the time, 
 and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all 
 of the people all of the time. These Negroes will understand 
 that they were enslaved for 228 years upon the ground that 
 they were property. After which we have contradicted our 
 own statement and declared them people. They will under- 
 stand that if they were people then they must have been people 
 to start with. They will also understand that it must have 
 been an error in the government. They will further under- 
 stand that any government that is not responsible for the same 
 is incapable of establishing statuatory laws, in that they 
 would rise up and ask for indemnities for 228 years of servi- 
 tude. That is not all they will understand at the beginning of 
 the late rebellion of this country it was unconstitutional to 
 
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 impose military service upon any man who was not a citizen. 
 If we could have imposed military services upon people whether 
 they had been citizens or not, without a question that 4,000,- 
 000 Negroes would have had to gone on to war to start with. 
 But it was unconstitutional to start with, was it not also un- 
 constitutional to end with. But simply because it became a 
 military necessity, military services were imposed upon that 
 4,000,000 Negroes who had always been counted something 
 less than a human. And in plain violation to every law there 
 was in the world 1,500,000 of these Negroes died on the bat- 
 tle field for the liberty that they today enjoy, this government 
 was responsible for these dead men and the race should have 
 been paid for it. But we can adopt them right here as citizens 
 of the U. S. and have them to become a part of the government, 
 and in that they will never reserve a right to issue an in- 
 demnity against it. The white man arose in arms against Abe 
 Lincoln and says, "No," We have bought the country beyond 
 the price of money. We have bought it by blood, every dollar 
 that we are worth in this country is invested here, either in 
 a business manufacture, or a home industry and to suffer an 
 invalid people who have had only fifty odd years of civilization 
 to whose capital does not amount to a dollar, to come in and 
 share an equal right with us, hold positions over our head that 
 would be of such a nature as to govern our home and say 
 what we should do with our wealth, why ignorance would be 
 bliss; and it would be folly to be wise. Prosperity has be- 
 come a naught, investment would be wiped out of existence 
 before we would suffer such a thing to be, we will kill the 
 man that is advocating such a cause, and that will stop the 
 situation in its bud. 
 
 For that cause they killed Abe Lincoln, then there came a 
 secret organization among the white people, never to let this 
 Negro know but that he is a citizen. He can not read or 
 write. The only way that you can get him to understand is 
 to "get him told." Tell him that he is a citizen and to estab- 
 lish this fact with him, you will have to allow him all of the 
 privileges of citizenship of a white man. Let him eat and 
 sleep with you for a while It's not going to hurt you. Let 
 him vote with you for a while. Let him ride on the train 
 with you for a while. When you get him thoroughly educated 
 to the place where he thinks he's a citizen, and will never 
 know the cause of the effect then you can detract these privi- 
 leges from him, one by one and fence him off again as prop- 
 erty. 
 
 Dear people let me ask you the question, "Where are you 
 
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 at today?" The worst has not come to you if you do not wake 
 up to a sense of your duty. Every right that you have in the 
 U. S. is donated to you without a title. Any right that the 
 constitution does not provide for, you have no protection of the 
 same. As the case stands today, every state in the union can 
 abridge your rights without violating the constitution of the 
 U. S. 
 
 To make this statement more clear I will interpret the Thir- 
 teenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendment of the Federal 
 Constitution, as follows: The 13th Amendment of the Con- 
 stitution says that no slavery shall exist in the Union. That 
 simply prohibits the white man from owning slaves. It also 
 prohibits the five civilized tribes of Indians from owning 
 slaves. But when this amendment was enacted there was an 
 Indian in this country known as the "Creek Indian." They 
 adopted their slaves. After which that slave is known today 
 upon the record as an adopted citizen. He became a citizen by 
 virtue of his adoption. 
 
 You also had an Indian in this country who refused to 
 adopt their slaves, known as the Chottow Indian, but under 
 certain acts of the 3rd and 4th articles of the 66th treaty they 
 gave them 40 acres of land which was home. After which 
 that slave is known today upon the record as a Chottow freed- 
 man. If the 13th amendment made him a citizen, why is he 
 known as a Chottow freedman. The white man failed also to 
 adopt his slaves, when the fox of the wood had holes, and the 
 birds of the air had nests. They turned that Negro loose 
 without his adoption and without a place to lay his head. So 
 you are known today as American freedman, not one Negro 
 out of 10,000 knows that. I spoke in the Hampton University 
 at Marshall, Texas. I asked the professor of that school what 
 supported that school. He said, '"The Freedmen Bureaus of 
 the North." 
 
 I asked him what did the "Freedmen Bureaus" consist of. 
 He said, "An organization of white men appropriating money 
 to educate Negro freedmen of the south." I said to him then 
 you are known as a freedman "instead of a citizen," are you 
 not. He said to me, "Judge I hadn't thought about that." We 
 had a Negro to get in jail in Mexico. He reported to the 
 government of Mexico that he was an American citizen from 
 Kentucky. The Government of Mexico wired to the governor 
 of Kentucky, and told him that there was a negro in jail here, 
 that claims to be an American citizen. The Governor of Ken- 
 tucky wired to the Governor of Mexico and said, "If he is a 
 black man, I don't see how he can be a citizen. We haven't 
 
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 any black citizens. You may turn him loose. He is our 
 Freedman, he thinks he is a citizen." That completes the 
 thirteenth amendment of the Federal Constitution. 
 
 Do you see anything in that that provides for a Negroe's 
 citizenship? Now the fourteenth amendment of the Federal 
 Constitution which says, "All persons born or naturalized in 
 the U. S. shall be a citizen of the same, or in the state wherein 
 he resides." Born or naturalized, there is a technical point 
 that you could not only drop the state of Indiana in but you 
 could drop the U. S. in it and never find it. The constitution 
 of the 11. S. readily provides for three classes of citizens. 1st 
 adopted; 2nd bona fide; 3rd an alien. The alien citizen has no 
 light that the bona fide citizen has a right to respect; and it 
 ie impossible for your child to be born bona fide without the 
 naturalization of their fore-parents. You have two classes of 
 heirs in the home. One *s an illegitimate and the other is a 
 bona fide child. All children that are born to you out of wed- 
 lock are illegitimate, by the reason of the fact the fore-parents 
 of that child have never complied with the law in adoption and 
 matrimony. 
 
 All that are born to you in wedlock are known as legitimate, 
 which means a bona fide right to your inheritance. Then it is 
 impossible for your child to be legitimately birthed to you 
 until you have met the requirement of the law. On the other 
 hand for citizenship, if the Negro race had been adopted citi- 
 zens into the U. S. when they were declared people instead of 
 property you would have been born a bona fide citizen to this 
 country by virtue of your fore-parents adoption. 
 
 But as they were never adopted and your interest has al- 
 ways been neglected, it brought you illegitimate by birth in 
 the U. S., known as an alien by birth. So that completes the 
 fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. Do you 
 see anything in that that provides for a Negroe's citizenship? 
 Remember that this did not become a U. S. until the south had 
 surrendered to the North. 
 
 Then the two governments had become united, (which was 
 known as the U. S.) Prior to that time this was known as 
 America, or the New England states. There vas no law pro- 
 vided for allegiance in this country until the 14th Amendment 
 was enacted. So the 14th Amendment provides for all races 
 that come under its jurisdiction. 
 
 Now the Fifteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution 
 says that no state in the Union shall reserve a right to abridge 
 the right of any citizen. There is no citizens rights abridged, 
 but whenever there is a law enacted prohibiting you from
 
 marrying any one that<you want, or anybody that wants you, 
 your rights are abridged. Whenever there is a law enacted 
 prohibiting you from walking up to the ballot boxes casting 
 a vote to protect your property, your rights are abridged. 
 Whenever there is a law enacted prohibiting you from riding 
 in any car that you like, after you have paid the same fare that 
 every other man has paid, your rights are abridged. This all 
 being a fact then your rights are abridged just as far as the 
 American soil goes. 
 
 Then what does the 15th Amendment guarantee to you and 
 me any part of the Constitution that congress does not have 
 1/ower to enforce is not worth the paper it is written on. It 
 takes you 1,000 years hard labor to educate a child. You 
 need not hope to complete your work in the first generation, 
 you only carry your boy, or girl to the zenith of their under- 
 standing. When those two children marry their children are 
 born unto them a little more intelligent than their parents, 
 even had a chance to l>e. You can not complete your work 
 there. So generations are only stepping stones into an educa- 
 tion. White people have had 5,000 years to become what they 
 are, and are making improvements all the time. 
 
 You have only had fifty years, so you can only hope to get 
 your experience as the years come and go. Ignorance is not 
 a fault, but rather an affliction. So this race is badly afflicted, 
 yet by virtue of its short coming. Now getting back to what 
 the race has got to ask for, you have more to ask for than any 
 people under the sun, and you are asking for less. Is it not 
 true from history that this country is made up from the vi- 
 tality of other countries. Every man or woman who has 
 come to this country has come of his own free will, their 
 own knowledge and consent. 
 
 Did the Negro come that way? The question answers it- 
 self, "NO!" You are the only people that have been captured 
 in your own country and then forced to come to this country; 
 after which they have forced you to clear the forest; drive 
 back the great beast, built the railroads; make the bread and 
 pay for the college education of the white man. And what did 
 you ever get for it, the meanest name, the cruelest treatment, 
 that hell itself could devise, has been poured out upon you 
 without being mixed with the least degree of mercy. If you 
 had voluntarily left your home and country and come to 
 this country as other nations have, it would have been simply 
 a matter of your choice, but being captured in your home and 
 forced to come to this country in the manner that you were, 
 it, it not a fact beyond any reasonable doubt, that this country 
 
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 is responsible for your home. Every man with a teaspoonfull 
 of sense would say "Yes." The reason why you have not got 
 it is, you have never ask for it. If Negro organization would 
 have stood for anything we would have been in a home long 
 ago. The government is ready and willing to comply with 
 such a request; but you must come through the proper channel, 
 and that is through a representative in Washington. That is 
 not all that you have to ask for. You have served the coun- 
 try 228 years, without compensation, upon the ground that 
 you were property, instead of people after which they con- 
 tradicted their own statement and declared you people instead 
 of property. If you were people then were you not people to 
 start with? The question answers itself, "Yes." Then who 
 made the error. It was the government beyond all question. 
 Any government that is not responsible for the same is in- 
 capable of establishing statutory laws. Then if this govern- 
 ment is a worthy object of making its own laws, without a 
 question, they are subject to indemnity to this people for 228 
 years of servitude. The reason why you never got anything is, 
 you never ask for it. A thing that is not worth asking for, 
 is not worth having. 
 
 That is not all you have to ask for, at the beginning of the 
 late rebellion of this country, it was unconstitutional to impose 
 military service upon any man who was not a citizen. If they 
 could have imposed military services upon people whether they 
 had been citizens or not, that 4,000,000 of Negroes would have 
 had to have gone into war to start with. The other fellow 
 would have stayed at* home. 
 
 But it was unconstitutional and they could not do that. 
 Then if it was unconstitutional to start with, was it not also 
 to end with. But simply because it became a military neces- 
 sity, military services were imposed upon that 4,000,000 of 
 Negroes, that had always been counted something less than 
 human. One million and a half of your fathers have perished 
 on the battle fields of this country in plain violation to every 
 law that there was on earth. This government was responsible 
 for those men's lives and this race should have been paid for 
 them. And the reason why you were never paid you never 
 ask for anything. I hope that you may see into this that, 
 Negro organizations are not standing for anything. That is 
 not all that you have got to ask for, and I hope you will mark 
 these words down on your memory, write them down on the 
 table of your hearts, never to be forgotten through genera- 
 tions. You never will be a people on the face of this earth 
 until you get your representatives in Washington and make 
 
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 DR. MADDEN, 
 
 Who will represent the Negro Race at Washington,
 
 an application to this government to colonize you to yours- 
 elves. 
 
 Chickens and gardens are not healthy together. A lamb 
 and a leopard will never socially communicate together, 
 spiders and flies never build their dens together. Water and 
 oil will not agree. Vinegar and soda will never quietly and 
 peacefully mix. Neither will you ever harmonize the race 
 question with the two races together. 
 
 If God almighty ever su<Tered an object of pity to exist on 
 earth, without a question; it is a Negro man. He deserves the 
 sympathy of the fowls of the air, and the beast of the field. 
 Here he stands with his wife and children staring him in the 
 face for a living; and here he stands staring the white man 
 in the face with tears in his eyes, for a job. How can you 
 serve your family independently so long as you are dependent 
 upon the other fellow. You must make yourself a job. That 
 same railroad out there is owned and controlled by the white 
 man. You can not stick your head in any farther than a jim 
 crow car. That same road can be owned and controlled by 
 Negroes in a colony of their own; that road must be built; 
 those ties and steel rails must be laid, and it can be done 
 by Negroes. Those cars must be built also that engine. That 
 train must be operated which can be done by Negroes. You 
 must educate your boys as lawyers and doctors, as brick ma- 
 sons and carpenters, as electricians and machinists. Educate 
 your girls as teachers and stenographers, and to do anything 
 any other race is educating its people for. What can you see 
 ahead of you today 'when you lift your head and look for the 
 future hope of your children, outside of hewers of wood and 
 drawers of water. Educate your boy or girl above common la- 
 bor if you dare and before they would resort to common means 
 for a living, they would bury themselves and the race also in 
 disgrace up to its neck. Two-thirds of the divorce cases that 
 have gone into the courts today are by reason of fact that the 
 wife was tired of taking care of the home. She is in a wash 
 tub up to her elbows, her husband rooming the country look- 
 ing for a job. The two are out in the world striving to feed 
 their little children and no one is rearing them. But when 
 the avenues of life are opened up to them or to the Negro 
 men, and doors of industry are thrown open to him, the same 
 opportunity confronts Negro men as it does other men to sup- 
 port their families, then wife can stay at home with her fami- 
 ly and children. Your children then come up with better 
 morals and manners from the very fact that they get better 
 attention. Then hearts will be brighter, homes will be hap- 
 
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 pier, life will be worth living, and the world at large will be 
 better. Is that any reason why this race should be colonized, 
 any fair minded person would say "yes." 
 
 2nd Reason. That is not the only reason, the next reason 
 is, we do not believe that the white man's literature will 
 ever give the black man a complete education. It will open 
 the eyes of the white man, and blindfold the Negro. I do not 
 mean to say that it will not give you some advantage. Any- 
 thing that is subject to criticism is not complete. The spirit 
 of the literature teaches that your color is a curse, and that 
 everything in heaven is white, and if you are ever to get there 
 you will have to go to your grave or somewhere else and turn 
 white. They forget to tell you that there is a rainbow that 
 encircles this element, that consists of seven colors. And God 
 has just as much glory in one color of that rainbow as he has 
 in another, because it is all a part of his creation. And if I 
 thought I would have to go to my grave or somewhere else and 
 turn white before I would be a fit subject for my father's King- 
 dom after being a part of his creation, I would by far rather 
 go to a devil's hell, yes a thousand times than to see such a- 
 God as that. But there is not a word of that true. There was 
 a man that spoke through inspiration a little better than six 
 thousand years ago. He knew nothing of this* literature. He 
 says, "You shall know each other in heaven even as you are 
 known on earth." I know my brother on earth is a black man, 
 then to see him in heaven as a white man, would I have any 
 reason to know him. And what does that make of the litera- 
 ture that you are teaching the children, as fast as they become 
 advanced in the literature of this country, teaching the 
 superiority of the white man and the inferiority of the black 
 man, it only suffers your grievances to go up and over shadow 
 your opportunity. 
 
 The past rises before me. I see my dear old mother coming 
 right up out of servitude, uneducated as they might have been, 
 unfortunate as it might have been for my race of people, but 
 that dear old mother understood from an animal instinct that 
 it was her duty to move the little children on their career of 
 life a little better than the producer was. In that I see that 
 dear old mother standing over the wash tub from early in the 
 morning until late at night. Standing over the ironing board 
 until she fell asleep. I saw her as she wades through the 
 snow and the sleet that she may keep her daughter in school, 
 that she might become an intelligent woman. As soon as she 
 gets her diploma in this infernal literature what does she 
 learn, she learns that her mother is something less than hu- 
 
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 man, she also learns that her father and brothers are of a 
 worthless race, and in that she would rather be a white man's 
 woman than a Negro man's wife. The time has not got to 
 come but is here now that an undoubted loyalty should be de- 
 manded of every Negro in America, both inside and outside 
 of fraternalism. The elevation of every people on earth de- 
 pends upon the credit of your women. 
 
 Then if your women don't amount to anything your race 
 don't amount to anything. Is that any reason why these two 
 races should be separated. Any fair minded man would say 
 "yes." 
 
 SUBJECT OF ORGANIZATION. 
 
 Every people in the U. S. are organized with the exception 
 of the Negro, and you have organized, and organized, and or- 
 ganized until you are discouraged. Thirty-three secret or- 
 ganizations are hanging on the walls of this country today, and 
 every one of them claim to be a iDower in Europe, Africa, and 
 Australia. You may be a power I am not in a position to say 
 you are not, but I am in a position to say this, "If you are a 
 power you are not standing for anything." In the last 42 
 years that you have been catering to those worthless things 
 hanging on walls of this country, you have lost everything that 
 a race would loose. You have lost your recognition as a man; 
 you have lost your redress to court; you have lost your seat in 
 trains and in waiting rooms; you have lost your road to the 
 ballot box; you have lost protection to yourselves, your family 
 and your property. If you live in the world from now until 
 God Almighty bid you dust to rise, you have all to win and 
 nothing to loose. Is that any evidence that you are carrying 
 dead men's bones. 
 
 Thirty-three secret organizations only have a tendency to 
 put you farther apart. Take a stick the size of your finger, 
 you can break it with all the ease in the world, but bind a 
 score of them together, can you break them? No, you can- 
 not. It is even so with us as a race. You can break one man, 
 however great he may be, but it is impossible to break a great 
 race of 11,000,00 of people co-operated together for the up- 
 building of laws and justice. That co-operated unity, that 
 concerted action is necessary for all the people who would 
 seek the light of better days. Is that any reason why this 
 race should get together. You can never be a people any 
 other way. Right in the very face of your organizations I see 
 them coming right in to your homes dragging a man out of 
 bed right before his wife and little children's eyes, and 
 
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 murdering that without the law, without jury and without 
 judge. I see his own fellow men going on disinterested, "I 
 haven't anything to do with that he couldn't give me any 
 Pythian sign." I see another one hanging to a limb, with 500 
 bullet holes through his body, his tongue hanging below his 
 chin, his eyeballs laying out on his checks, and his own fellow 
 men going on seemingly disinterested. "I haven't got anything 
 to do with that. He could not give me any Odd Fellows sign." 
 
 I see another one tied to a stake with fifty gallons of coal 
 oil poured on him, the blaze going fifty feet above the man's 
 head, and the groans going up to God that cannot be uttered. 
 The earth has opened up its mouth and swallowed the man's 
 blood as a testimony against civilization, and I see these same 
 men saying, "I haven't anything to do with that. He could 
 not give me the Masonic sign." What kind of a sign can a 
 dead man give more than a dead man's sign. Before you will 
 ever be a race of people on this earth that will amount to the 
 snap of your finger, you have got to come to this one particu- 
 lar place in life, whenever one Negro man or woman is mis- 
 treated let every drop of Negro blood be insulted. Everything 
 on earth ought to stand for something. If you are a man of 
 a family and the father of a home stand for that, be just as 
 good a father, just as good a husband, just as good a provider 
 for that home as any other man can be, then your wife will not 
 have to quit you to try another one. If you are a minister of 
 the Gospel stand for that by going right down into the facts 
 of God's eternal truths, and bringing up things both old and 
 new. Analyze them to the world, and feed the people of God. 
 How many ministers have you got out in the world today that 
 can not say enough about the Kingdom of Heaven to induce 
 you to want to go there. They can not say enough about the 
 Lord Jesus Christ to induce you to love Him, yet they are 
 preachers. They are not standing for anything, they are 
 nothing more or less than professional bums. 
 
 If you are a farmer then stand for that, let your profession 
 vouch for your living. Don't tell me you are a farmer then 
 every spring wear out a sack under your arm hunting for seed 
 potatoes. You are out there in a farmers way, but you are not 
 standing for anything. Now what does your organization 
 stand for, one says I am going to be a Pythian. "What do you 
 want to be a Pythian for John?" Answer, "All these railroad 
 men are Pythians, they are not going to put you off the train 
 if you are a Pythian. Then he's fixing to beat a train, that's 
 what he stands for. " Another one says, "I'm going to be an 
 Odd Fellow," and he is asked why? His answer is why they 
 
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 don't hang Odd Fellows." Right then he has some one picked 
 out that he is going to shoot, and that is what he stands for. 
 Another says "I want to be a Mason," and he is ask why, and 
 his answer is why if you are a Mason a white man will shake 
 hands with you any place in the world. Then all he stands 
 lor is shaking hands with a white man. Not long ago I was 
 in California and I saw some little white boys going fishing, 
 they entertained that same ambition that all white people en- 
 tertain they threw in a nickle a piece and hired a Negro boy 
 to go along and wait on the crowd. The Negro boy put his 
 bait in a small can, stuck it in his pocket and away they went 
 to the river. He was going along giving all of the boys bait. 
 Near by there was a log that stuck out into the river at one 
 end of this log the water was possibly eight feet deep the lit- 
 tle Negro was running in and out on this log, and he went 
 to the end of this log to make his turn, his foot slipped and 
 he went head foremost into the river. His little white com- 
 panions saw him go down, he threw off his coat and cap and 
 into the water he went, he came up swimming with one hand 
 and the Negro boy in the other. It was not long until he was 
 all right but one of the other white boys called Jake and says, 
 ''I did not think that there was a white boy on earth that 
 thought that much of a Negro boy; suppose you had of 
 drowned that water was eight feet deep." He then said I don't 
 want to play with you any more. Jack scratched his head and 
 frowned then explained, "That was not it, he had the bait." 
 So when ever you see a white man shaking hands with a 
 Negro, whenever you see a white man buggy riding a Negro, 
 whenever you see a white man going arm and arm with a 
 Negro, that is a another Negro that has got the bait. He has 
 surely got something that that white man wants. You have 
 got to stand for something. Congress has got to create the 
 position for you to have the representation there. Such a 
 position has never been created yet by the U. S. government. 
 But 11,00,000 of people can get any law created that they 
 want that is right and fair, whenever you take the sufficient 
 endorsement as much as 12 men out of every state in the 
 Union, twelve men out of every state means 576 men would 
 consist of your cabinet and go with you to Washington. Seat 
 that body of men before congress and President, they get up 
 and make your: "Honored President of the U. S. and worthy 
 Congress of America, I represent this body of men. They 
 represent the states in which they live, relative to the vitality 
 of Africa to the U. S. through this body of men I represent 
 11,000,000 people. They recommend that I be seated in the 
 
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 American Congress Hall to vouch for the interest of the race. 
 We have an interest in this government that must be taken 
 care of and can only be cared for by representation.. 
 
 The same being the hinges by which hang the right of all 
 the people. We could not hope to be taken care of any other 
 way. We also understand that such legislation must be 
 through the recommendations of the President to congress, so 
 we pray that the President would recommend Congress to 
 create such a position. I am today solely at your mercies." 
 The President seeing that you have come with the proper en- 
 dorsements will recommend Congress to create such a position 
 and they will create the position by a unanimous vote. Then 
 you get two rooms in the lobby of the White House with all 
 the other lobbyist of the nation. Then when you get ready to 
 send your delegates to Washington you have some one to send 
 them to and they will not be so liable to give that bill to' a 
 janitor. Then you can prepare a bill and present it to Cong- 
 ress recommending that some thinly populated part of the U. 
 S. be set apart as a reservation for the Negro and condemned 
 as a colony. The government appraised negro property 
 throughout the Union and pay for it. After which negro prop- 
 erty becomes property of the government. It would naturally 
 bring in return the same money it would require to condemn 
 it. Move them all to this new colony where they would re- 
 serve a right to make their own laws by treaty with the U. S. 
 At the same time he takes an oath of allegience to protect the 
 constitutional laws of the U. S. When the U. S. flag is insulted 
 the negro is insulted, he becomes a factor in the powers of 
 war. Then the two races would spread forth the emblems of 
 eternal peace, and be friends forever. That is the only solu- 
 tion under the sun for the race question. I would like to call 
 attention to something that happened in the mail department 
 in Washington. They separated the white from the colored 
 in the mail department. The colored people partitioned 
 against it and sen* a delegation before the President Wilson. 
 Mr. Trotter the editor of a Boston paper, was the speaker of 
 the delegation and when Mr. Trotter told the President that 
 all he was asking for was the rights of a bona fide citizen the 
 President became highly insulted and ignored Mr. Trotter 
 completely. The President told Mr. Trotter that he had lost 
 his head and that he would not hear him any further. He 
 also turned to the delegation and said, "If you ever have any 
 occasion to come before me again you will certainly have to 
 bring another speaker." He also said to the delegation, "I 
 am deeply in sympathy with the Negro race, and do admire 
 
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 the progress that you are making, but the thing that is to be 
 sought by you people from this government is a complete in- 
 dependence of the white people. The white people are will- 
 ing to do anything possible to assist you. What more could 
 Mr. Wilson have said, he simply meant for you to get to your- 
 selves and transact your own business, so all Negroes who want 
 to be Negro leaders should get into this movement and play 
 the part of Moses and Aaron, and if you die on the way God 
 will prepare another Caleb and Joshua. 
 
 The race is suffering today from the want of a leader. The 
 Negroes that you call leaders today are followers. The 
 preacher never gets to a place until you all get there. The 
 Doctor never goes until you all get there, the lawyer never 
 goes until you all get there, all that I have made mention of 
 are following you, so now where is your leader? 
 
 The race has been trying to colonize ever since it has been 
 free, by setting up the lower parts of the city which is called 
 "Negro quarters." In many parts of Oklahoma you have ex- 
 clusive Negro towns especially Boley, Oklahoma, a town with 
 inhabitants of 3,000 negroes. They have their own banks 
 and stores, and out of the 3,000 negroes there was not one 
 qualified to vote. They call that colonization, but I would 
 call it "Bunching up." I will take time to explain to you the 
 difference between colonization and segregation. Segregation 
 means for the Negro to eat in the kitchen, and the white man 
 in the dining room; it also means that you must ride together 
 on the train or walk. 
 
 Colonization means that a certain portion of the country is 
 set aside for you, and each one of you have a certain portion 
 of land, each one of you draw a certain proportion from the 
 government. If the Negro had known what colonization 
 was every one of them would be in a colony today. The white 
 people highly favor this movement and the act is plausible. 
 And without a question any negro who expects to make a liv- 
 ing with his hands and be the support of his family will favor 
 this movement. While this is a public talk I am making, and 
 if you desire to know the further details of this movement, 
 we would ask you to come and cast your lot with the National 
 court of protection, and if there is anything written in this 
 book that you do not understand I will be glad if you will call 
 and see me for further satisfaction. 
 
 The white man is in the saddle in this country and he is in 
 there to stay. He is ahead of you financially; he is ahead of 
 you in education; he is ahead of you in art and in science. He 
 came to this country ahead of you and he is going to stay 
 
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 ahead of you; so what star of hope can you see rising over 
 the pathway of that weary footman of color. But I am here 
 to tell you that a new morning star has risen, a brighter day 
 is dawning. God Almighty has always prepared a man for the 
 day, and a man for the hour. When women were packing 
 mortar on the walls in Egypt, little infant babies were tied 
 to their mothers back as she was following the ox through the 
 field, the groans of that people went up to God that could not 
 be uttered and troubled the Master on the throne. And God 
 came down in the image of fire and halted Moses on the moun- 
 tain and said, "Moses take off thy shoes for the ground which 
 you stand on is holy." I have a holy communication to make 
 with you, the groans of my people have come up before me, I 
 want you to go down into the land of Egypt and tell Mr. 
 Pharoah if he cannot use my people to a good advantage that 
 I have a land prepared for them. One man lead the children 
 of Israel to victory. I look down the line of life a little nearer, 
 I saw 4,000,000 of people sold at the poles and whipped at the 
 post, little infant babies pulled from their mother's breast 
 and sold to foreign emigration. In that I see all that fond 
 relation of mother and father, brother and sister buried be- 
 neath the feet of mighty. All that was done here under this 
 beautiful flag of the free. I saw those dear old people hover- 
 ing in the back yards of their masters covering their heads 
 to keep from being heard, yet they were praying to a God 
 that was millions of miles away, but God Almighty heard their 
 prayers and sent us another Moses in the person of Abraham 
 Lincoln. At one stroke ot a goose quill he liberated 4,000,000 
 of people. No wonder John the Revelator said, "I saw a new 
 heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and first earth 
 had passed away." Any time there are 4,000,000 souls leap- 
 ing for joy if that is not heaven where are you going to find 
 it, since the Kingdom of God is in the hearts of men. I look 
 down the line of life a little nearer, I see 11,000,000 of people 
 who have fought in every war that this nation has ever had 
 has been a factor in the power that has won every victory that 
 this government has ever ask for. This same government that 
 we fought, bled and died for has left us unprotected to our- 
 selves, our families and our property. But God Almigthy has 
 always prepared a man for the day and the hour. The darkest 
 hours of your life are just before day, a new morning star has 
 risen, a brighter day is dawning. 
 
 There was a ship lost at sea for many a day that suddenly 
 sited a friendly vesel. From the mask of that unfortunate 
 vessel was seen a signal go up. "Water! Water! or die of 
 
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 thirst." The answer came back, "Cast down your bucket 
 where you are." The third and fourth signal for water was 
 answered, "Cast down your bucket where you are." At last 
 the captain of that distressed vessel heeded the instruction 
 and cast down his bucket, and to his great surprise it came up 
 full of fresh sparkling water right from the mouth of the 
 Amazon river. To those of my race who depend upon better- 
 ing your condition in a foreign land, or who under estimate 
 the importance of cultivating that friendly relation of the 
 white man, which is your next door neighbor, I would say, 
 "Cast down your bucket where you are," cast it down in mak- 
 ing friends, in every manly way of the people of all races 
 whom you are surrounded. Cast it down in agriculture, cast 
 it down in commerce, cast it down in domestic services, and in 
 profession. The greatest danger is in that great leap from 
 slavery to freedom, you may overlook the fact that the masses 
 of us are to live from the production of our hands. You fail 
 to keep in mind that you shall prosper in proportion as you 
 learn to dignify and glorify common labor. You shall prosper 
 in proportion as you learn to draw that line between the super- 
 fluous and the substantial, the original gulgo of life as well as 
 the useful. No race can prosper until it learns that there is 
 as much dignity in tilling a field as there is in writing a poem. 
 It is at the bottom of life where you must begin, and not at 
 the top. Neither should you permit your grievance to over- 
 shadow your opportunities. We who think, and understand 
 that the agitation of questions of social equality is of extrem- 
 ist folly all the blessings and all of the privileges that would 
 come to you must be the result of constant and severe strug- 
 gles, rather than artificial forces. No race can have anything 
 to contribute to the markets of this world as long as in any 
 degree ostracized. It is right and fair that all of the privileges 
 of the law be ours. It is vastly more important that you are 
 prepared for the exercise of these privileges. So an oppor- 
 tunity to earn a dollar just now in a factory is worth infinate- 
 ly more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in a opera 
 house. That being true let us put forth our best efforts in the 
 forest and fields, in mines, and in factories, and much good 
 will come. Yes far above and beyond that material benefit 
 will be that higher good. Then when you have done all that 
 has been assigned to your hands to do, let the praying part of 
 our people pray that God will come in the blotting out of the 
 sectual differences, and racial animosities in that determination 
 to administer absolute justice in that willing obedience to all 
 classes unto the mandates of the law. And to, in working out 
 
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 your differences you will need in a large measure in the years 
 that are to come the help, the encouragement, the guidance 
 that the strong can give the weak, so it is very necessary that 
 we all are bound together in that great fraternal world in 
 order that we might assist each other and soon throw off the 
 shackles of racial prejudice and hatred and rise as it is risen 
 our beloved country, above the clouds of ignorance, narrow- 
 ness, and selfishness unto that atmosphere, into that pure 
 sunshine where it would be your highest ambition to serve 
 man our brother, regardless to race, color, or previous con- 
 ditions. 
 
 Now if you will be faithful over these few things which are 
 easy to believe, some day you shall be transported into that 
 region that is more vast where you shall be face to face, the 
 fulfillment of task, a thousand times greater than you ever 
 witnessed in this life. 
 
 Your present life and its requirements are only stepping 
 stones into vast temples where you shall see the spring of all 
 powers, that center of all good, that fountain head of all glory. 
 
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